Christopher Wren
The great Wren
Marking the 100th anniversary of Christopher Wren’s death
In Betjeman’s footsteps
Admiring the sheer imaginative power of Wren
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Dead reckoning
How Britain forgot the sea (and why it matters)
Regulations without services
How the state is prohibiting without providing
Jams, jellies and EU insanity
From toast to tungsten, the EU is an enemy of innovation
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism